One benefit of professional practice is gaining awareness of online opportunities for artists. Subscribing to news from online creative communities such as artquest, artjobs.org, and a-n has provided details of open calls and collaborative projects that I may have been unaware of.
I have personally benefitted from such connections this year by getting a positive result from responding to an open call for artworks for the BIFFF Film Festival and also being accepted into the a-n degree show guide 2023.
The long running a-n degree show guide provides “Q&As and profiles focusing on graduating BA students from across the UK” www.issuu.com . The site itself is “the largest artists’ membership organisation in the UK with over 29,000 members” (www.a-n.co.uk) and provides a fantastic opportunity to widen my audience.
Acceptance into the BIFFF Film Festival involves an image of my work being printed and exhibited at the site in Brussels during the celebrations before being auctioned. Although I do not profit financially from this, I also do not incur any costs and will receive 25 postcards of the work to sell or use as marketing materials. It is also an opportunity for my name to find its way into the ear of potential collaborators and clients.
